Sci­ence team de­signs a new CAR they say may work much bet­ter than BC­MAs in fight­ing mul­ti­ple myelo­ma

Right now the big R&D play in the mul­ti­ple myelo­ma field is cen­tered around a raft of ex­per­i­men­tal BC­MA ap­proach­es, in­clud­ing CAR-Ts. But a sci­en­tif­ic team at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Utah says they may have found a bet­ter ap­proach.

Fo­cus­ing on the high rate of re­lapse us­ing cur­rent ther­a­pies, as well as the wan­ing ef­fi­ca­cy of the clin­i­cal CAR-Ts, a team at the Hunts­man Can­cer In­sti­tute at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Utah built a new CAR fo­cused on CD229.

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